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As part of a Geocaching puzzle, I have found these images, which supposedly are Feynman diagrams. I'm supposed to get numbers out of them. I've read some about particle physics but it is way far from my areas of knowledge. From what I've seen on many pages though, I'm starting to think these are bogus, i.e. they're just drawn to look like Feynman diagrams, but they aren't.
Just in case they really are, what do they represent? Is there any way to extract numbers out of them? (I thought something like getting the probability of those cases happening, although I'm not sure that can be calculated).

First diagram:

Apparently a Feynman Diagram

And second diagram:

Apparently another Feynman Diagram

EDIT: For the record, I contacted the cache owner, and he agreed than the lower arrow in the second diagram should be pointing backwards as suggested by gj255 on their answer.

As part of a Geocaching puzzle, I have found these images, which supposedly are Feynman diagrams. I'm supposed to get numbers out of them. I've read some about particle physics but it is way far from my areas of knowledge. From what I've seen on many pages though, I'm starting to think these are bogus, i.e. they're just drawn to look like Feynman diagrams, but they aren't.
Just in case they really are, what do they represent? Is there any way to extract numbers out of them? (I thought something like getting the probability of those cases happening, although I'm not sure that can be calculated).

First diagram:

Apparently a Feynman Diagram

And second diagram:

Apparently another Feynman Diagram

As part of a Geocaching puzzle, I have found these images, which supposedly are Feynman diagrams. I'm supposed to get numbers out of them. I've read some about particle physics but it is way far from my areas of knowledge. From what I've seen on many pages though, I'm starting to think these are bogus, i.e. they're just drawn to look like Feynman diagrams, but they aren't.
Just in case they really are, what do they represent? Is there any way to extract numbers out of them? (I thought something like getting the probability of those cases happening, although I'm not sure that can be calculated).

First diagram:

Apparently a Feynman Diagram

And second diagram:

Apparently another Feynman Diagram

EDIT: For the record, I contacted the cache owner, and he agreed than the lower arrow in the second diagram should be pointing backwards as suggested by gj255 on their answer.

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Are these legit Feynman Diagrams? If so, what do they mean?

As part of a Geocaching puzzle, I have found these images, which supposedly are Feynman diagrams. I'm supposed to get numbers out of them. I've read some about particle physics but it is way far from my areas of knowledge. From what I've seen on many pages though, I'm starting to think these are bogus, i.e. they're just drawn to look like Feynman diagrams, but they aren't.
Just in case they really are, what do they represent? Is there any way to extract numbers out of them? (I thought something like getting the probability of those cases happening, although I'm not sure that can be calculated).

First diagram:

Apparently a Feynman Diagram

And second diagram:

Apparently another Feynman Diagram